Escape angle bracket in XML

Hi,
I am mapping to the cXML from the idoc. In the cXML field call extrinsic I want to map a hyperlink to it. When I send it through the adapter look like XI convert the angle bracket <> to < and >. Here is what I tried to map
<URL name="TC">http://www.mycompany.pdf</URL>
Do you have any suggestion on how to escape the angle bracket conversion? I was trying different option below but non of them work. When I use the converstion code then it pass through as text. When I looked at the moni under technical routing xml it show the url link but when I open it with note pad then I see the bracket converted.
<URL name="TC">http://www.mycompany.pdf</URL>
"&#60"URL name="TC""&#62"http://www.mycompany.pdf"&#60/URL"&#62"
Thanks
MN

Try using CDATA
All text in an XML document will be parsed by the parser.
But text inside a CDATA section will be ignored by the parser.
CDATA - (Unparsed) Character Data
The term CDATA is used about text data that should not be parsed by the XML parser.
Characters like "<" and "&" are illegal in XML elements.
"<" will generate an error because the parser interprets it as the start of a new element.
"&" will generate an error because the parser interprets it as the start of an character entity.
Some text, like JavaScript code, contains a lot of "<" or "&" characters. To avoid errors script code can be defined as CDATA.
Everything inside a CDATA section is ignored by the parser.
A CDATA section starts with "<![CDATA[" and ends with "]]>":
Refer to http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp
Regards,
Mike

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